Cosmic Biology for dummies
Just months ago, Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University co-authored an article that proposed sending astronauts on a one-way trip to Mars with the goal of establishing a colony on the red planet. According to the Daily Evergreen however, his latest book looks “way past Mars, deep into the reaches of space.”

The authors take an interesting approach in a portion of the book, where they consider “life on our home planet of Earth, not as we know it to be, but as an intelligent observer on another world would deduce it.” The approach of imagining things from the perspective of an extraterrestrial being was also used recently by Stephen Hawking, when he used human behavior to imagine how extraterrestrials might behave.
Read more about the book at the publisher’s website here – http://www.springer.com/astronomy/astrobiology/book/978-1-4419-1646-4